Showing papers on "Natural disaster published in 1968"

Cultural Adaptation to Threatened Disaster

Abstract: Social and behavioral scientists have recently undertaken to describe and analyze human behavior under the extreme conditions of disaster, an interest with compelling practical and applied value that has attracted considerable research support, particularly through the former Committee on Disaster Studies of the National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council. In the resultant body of literature various problems and approaches have been identified and defined, usually couched in terms of the personal and social consequences of sudden, unexpected disasters. The archetype paradigm seeks to establish empirically in natural disasters laboratories modeled after projections of surprise attack and looks for classes of "disaster behavior" that can be predicted in such events. While it is generally conceded that the pre-impact situation (variously defined) has a bearing on emergent behavior in a disaster, relatively little of the effort has been devoted to conceptualizing and defining research problems wi...